Table of contents - Special Issue: Adult Education transformation and social justice
Guest Editors: Vicky Duckworth, Gary Husband, Rob Smith
Finding spaces for transformational learning in a neo-liberal world
Michael AtkinsonThe purpose of this paper is to identify the factors which enhance transformational learning in adult learning spaces for people experiencing cultural marginalisation.
Towards an inclusive digital literacy framework for digital India
Prema P. Nedungadi, Rajani Menon, Georg Gutjahr, Lynnea Erickson, Raghu RamanThe purpose of this paper is to illustrate an Inclusive Digital Literacy Framework for vulnerable populations in rural areas under the Digital India program. Key challenges…
Breaking the triple lock: further education and transformative teaching and learning
Vicky Duckworth, Rob SmithThe purpose of this paper is to explore data from the University and College Union (UCU) Further Education in England: Transforming Lives and Communities research project and…
The significance of further education for black males
Sheine PeartThe purpose of this paper is to explore the lived educational realities of black male students studying in further education (FE) colleges to understand how these experiences…
Adult literacy organisers in Ireland resisting neoliberalism
Tom O’BrienThe purpose of this paper is to explore the experiences and responses of ten adult literacy organisers (ALOs) from Dublin, Wicklow and Kildare to the growing influence of…
Through the wall of literacy: Transformative practice in social networks among GCSE re-sit Further Education students
Howard Eric ScottThe purpose of this paper is to explain how peripheral participants contributed to and became more central members of a community of practice based in a social network that was…
Exploring transformative journeys through a higher education programme in a further education college
Eddie Rocks, Peter LavenderThe purpose of this paper is to understand the experiences of students undertaking higher education in a further education setting in the UK. Since the 1960s, there has been a…
Muslim minority women in Western Thrace: any room for transformative learning?
Eugenia Panitsides, Eirini Andromachi KioukaThe purpose of this paper is to gain meaningful insights in the learning background, experiences and potential of Muslim minority women in Western Thrace.
“My choice was not to become a tradesman, my choice was to go to uni”: Australian working-class masculinities, widening participation and lifelong learning
Garth D. Stahl, Cassandra LoeserThe purpose of this paper is to explore the first-year university experience as an agent for the (re)learning and (re)making of masculine identity as it intersects with other…
“Life-changing things happen”: The role of residential education in the transformation of adults’ learning and lives
Sharon Louise Clancy, John HolfordThe purpose of this paper is to examine the implications for adults of learning in a residential context and whether the residential aspect intensifies the learning process, and…
Supporting progression to HE: the role of colleges and vocational courses
Clare Elizabeth Gartland, Christine SmithVocational courses in England support the progression to higher education (HE) of large numbers of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, yet there is little research…
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